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An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses. [Obs.]

A division for the stalls of an open stable.

nd other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its n…

Fig.: A spy or detective; a constable.

A chair with adjustable back, for the sick, to support them while sitting up in bed.

Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott.

To place at board, for compensation; as, to board one's horse at a livery stable.

The head or chief of a tithing, or borough (see 2d Borough); the headborough; a parish constable. Spelman.

The adjustable socket, or step, of a millstone spindle. Knight.

AsO.OH, obtained by the oxidation of cacodyl, and having the properties of an exceedingly stable acid; -- also called alkargen.

ses. Caliper square, a draughtsman's or mechanic's square, having a graduated bar and adjustable jaw or jaws. Knight. -- Vernier calipers. See Vernier.

e place. Gay. You think this madness but a common case. Pope. I am in case to justle a constable, Shak.

t. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney. Court of chivalry, a court formerly held before the lord high constable and earl marshal of England as judges, having cognizance of contracts and other matters relating to deeds of arms and war. Blackstone.

An adjustable catch, bent plate, or hook, for holding together two objects or the parts of anything, as the ends of a belt, the covers of a book, etc.

, and in which he arranges the type in words and lines. It has one open side, and one adjustable end by means of which the length of the lines, and consequently the width of the page or column, may be determined.

for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Shak.

Of or pertaining to constables; consisting of constables.

Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.

An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made. Knight.

Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.